DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND FOR FAMILIES. NEW YORK, PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS. SOLD BY HIM, AND COLLINS AND CO:, WHITE, GALLAHER AND E. PECK AND CO. ROCHESTER; AND DAY, FOLLET 11372,227 11515235.5 1844, Jay 2. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, S8. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of October, A. D. 1828, in the fifty third year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, James Conner, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A History of the State of New York, from the first discovery of the country to the present time." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." District of New York. Clerk of the Southern FRED. J. BETTS, CONTENTS. Moose. Bear. Wolf. Cougar. Wolverene. Cata- mount. Wildcat. Raccoon. Martin. Deer. Fox. Hare. Rabbit. Porcupine. Woodchuck. Skunk. Weasel. Squirrel. State of the country. Aborigines. Iroquois. Their Confederacy. Antiquities. Inference. Their authors, and origin of the Indian |